So today I move out of my apartment. I told the cleaning lady that I'd be packed up and all my stuff would be out by 2:00pm. Guess what! It's almost 12:00pm and I haven't done shit today. I have to haul my bed, desk, bike, surfboard, chair, and a few boxes of clothes over to the storage unit I rented. But I woke up at 7:00am this morning in a very sad mood ... I going to miss being in San Diego so much. I had such a fun year, and even though I know Vegas is going to be a blast for the next 2 months, I really am going to miss chilling with all my friends down here. WSOP for me starts on Saturday with the $1500 NLHE donk fest. Weeeee~!! That should be interesting. I'll try to keep my blog updated on a daily basis with pictures (once I get my camera fixed since it's having some lens issues right now).
RiKD finally gave me back my camera the other night and I got more pictures from our fun night out at Stingaree. Check out these gems:
RiKD, myself, and my two friends.
Me and my hawaiian friends! They so chill.
Finally more pics from my friend's graduation
Can you guess who isn't graduating this year?
Me and my best friend from SD at her grad dinner
This picture def needs a caption. LOL
At the end of the night I was smashed and I kind of went through my friend's stone table. Oops
And if you still don't know why I miss this place... check out 8:00am in the morning on Mission Bay. It really doesn't get more beautiful...
See you guys in Vegas! Hopefully I'll be there soon. Not too soon thou~
I also enjoy making blog posts with flashy titles. Anything else you guys want to know about my life? May has been pretty good to me so far. Poker-wise, I'm doing average... I moved some money to FTP caz I got set up with a sick rakeback deal. In the 1st 3 days I had the most insane run at 2/4, making about 16k under my ID: COSMOWNED. Then I think I just got too cocky / started to run bad / started to play bad etc... caz over the past 2 weeks I've just been slowly bleeding away everything I won. Total, I'm up around 7.5k for the month in cash games which I'm definitely content about.
In all other aspects of my life, I continue to run like the lord Jesus Christ. I'm pretty sure I can walk on water, I just need to go out and try it tomorrow and prove to you guys that I can. With the exception of some retarded drama between a few of my friends, this month has really been the most memorable month of the year for me.
If anyone wants to photoshop my smile, here is your chance
Reggae Conerts! - My Hawaiian friend has introduced me to the insanely chill world of reggae music. Here is a clip that I took from my camera at Canes in San Diego / Mission Beach:
Song: Attention Span Artist: Rebelution
Mid-May our good friend (and fellow LPer) Richard Dayton known better in these circles as RiKD, decided he was going to come out to San Diego and live with Myth & FrinkX til WSOP time. Last week we all went out to get a table at Stinagree, needless it say it was a pretty fucking sweet night:
Pre-puking RiKD - In fine form if I do say so myself, trying to spit his game at one of my friends. Later on in the night was not so glamorous for our solider.
[vital]Myth...
...Expressed his love for me
Oh boy... Might make this my new facebook profile picture
After Stingaree closed we met up with Markus and Theo Tran, which was funny since Markus informed Theo that I had 4 bet bluffed him with T9 in the $2500 event I got 3rd in at the Bellagio Cup. Theo is definitely a fun guy with a good sense of humor thou. Around 2:30am, RiKD proceeds to puke all over the couch we were sitting on, along with all over FrinkX's shirt and shoes that he had loaned him. We get the boot and my 2 friends drag me into this car with this girl:
So I'm sitting there in her car as she is driving, thinking to myself that this girl looks really familiar, even though I had never met her in my entire life... She says her name is EV, and I think I cracked a poker joke assuming these 3 girls would get it. Epic fail. Besides the point though, I finally just ask her why she looks familiar and my friends look at me with a crazed looked and proceed to inform me she was on Real World / Road Rules challenge (like the Inferno and the Gauntlet) which aired on MTV. Oh hey that makes a lot of sense! She was SUPER down to earth thou, really one of the most real people that I've met down in SD so far. She was even nice enough to go completely out of her way to drop off me and my friend in Mission Valley.
I really love random things that happen like that. Ok last picture for this post:
The night before two of my best friends graduate from USD. Definitely makes me regret not working harder in school, because they are just so set and sure of what they are going to do with their lives and I'm sitting here feeling a little lost sometimes. I'm not complaining though! I got more good pics on my camera but RiKD and I seemed to have swapped our Cannon Elf's that we got from the FPP store so when I get that back from him I'll make another blog post. OK now! To the main part of this blog post:
WSOP is coming up! And I do indeed get a little chub every time I think of it. My plan is to leave the morning of the 30th and stay at the Wynn for two nights with my roommate Thomas Gabriel (aka plzlemmewin on FTP, GoGators86 on PS / UB). He's really one of the most humble / nicest people I've ever met, and I've been constantly helping him with his poker game for the past year. The improvements he has made have been insane, and so now he's one of peachy's horses for the WSOP. I really can't wait for the 31st, which is the first NLHE $1500 event. The field / prize pool is expected to be insane, so... RUN GOOD ONE (MORE) TIME!!!
One of the nights after watching Die Hard 4 we decided that we'd all go over to Lyric's place and do some drinking / home game fun / beer pong shit / random hang out stuff. So we called all the LPers that went out to dinner that night to come over.
Lyric and Mango eating lunch at 1:00am
So we get to Lyric's house and already a bunch of people were over there so we decided to get some beer pong going in the backyard.
MezmerizePLZ and milkman getting set up for the 1st game
Needless to say... the night was going to be a long one.
Me & The Boys: SakiSaki, myself, TwistedEcho, and [vital]Myth
AWarmPlace (iamalex), SakiSaki, and TwistedEcho
Notice how it is dark outside, that will change later on...
Obv Myth likes his beer
Inside they decided to play a fun home game:
actionDJ on the far end of the table. westmenloAA is the dude standing up
Blind man's bluff action!
Over on the other side of the room we have another game going on:
TYROMPER on the left playing an intense game of CHECKERS!!
Back outside it wasnt looking too good for Echo and Myth:
Slurp that shit up Myth, dont leave a drop!
Myth = Champion
Mango and milkman getting totally pwned
My favorite picture from Vegas. We look so happy lol!
Around this point in the night we made a few crazy prop bets, one being that milkman had to get in Mango's bikini if he lost the beerpong game.
Echo laying down the law! Myth = Still Champion. Sun = Rising... Fast
And obviously milkman loses...
And we have to capture the moment... Touch the titties!
actionDJ so hung over, Pavel hating the sun, Sun = Risen
Echo, milkman and Mango in the pool
Myth totally checking out Echo's package in this picture, sooo caught!
So with the sun out, we moved indoors where we set up an intense game of JENGA!!
Mango testing her luck
Lyric trying to help out. How is his hair so flawless at 7:00am?
So during my stay in Vegas I mostly played cash games exclusively at the Wynn, starting out at $2-$5 then quickly moving to the $5-$10. The Wynn has the best players club rewards, the cleanest poker room, and the best overall service of any poker room in Vegas by far. You'd be retarded to play anywhere else (except for maybe the Bellagio because their games are just sick juicy). The Wynn also runs a daily $300+30 from tuesday through thursday and a $500+40 every friday. During my stay, I decided to play in a few of these tournaments. Needless to say, they were very good investments.
Wynn Tournament #1 - June 20th
Pavel and I have a room at the Wynn so all I have to do is walk downstairs and register for the $300 tournament in the morning. So I do that and the event starts at noon. The tournament structure is just excellent and provides a ridiculous amount of play:
Starting Stack: 5,000
Blinds (Increase every 45 minutes):
25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200
100/200 ante 25
150/300 ante 25
200/400 ante 50
300/600 ante 50
400/800 ante 75
600/1200 ante 100
800/1600 ante 100
1000/2000 ante 200
1500/3000 ante 300
2000/4000 ante 400
3000/6000 ante 600
So I start out this tournament and pick up AQ fairly early on the button and raise a limper. Flop comes A-K-6, I check behind. Turn comes K, he bets out and I call. River comes A so the board is now A-K-6-K-A. Pot is like 800ish. He bets all-in for 4000+. I'm like "We are probably chopping" and call. He looks stunned when I show him an ace, and is like "nice hand" and mucks. Sweet gift, double up 20 mins into the tournament, I'm going to make the final table! I quickly realize no one at my table has a clue as to how to play decent tournament poker, as half of them are being total absurd nits and folding every hand except for QQ+ and the other half is shoving 100bb's when they flop 2nd pair. So I build my stack up to 12,000 as blinds reach 75/150. On the last hand of 75/150 just before our 15 min break, the old guy who is 2nd in chips at my table with 10,000 raises to 600 under the gun. It gets folded around to me in the big blind, I look and see KK, I make it 1800. He almost insta makes it 6000. I feel kinda gross for some reason, but it's KK... and I dont fold KK in tournaments to anyone. So all-in it went and he called and showed AA. Board bricks out and I get decked in a 20k pot when no one else at my table other than us two had more than a 7k stack. Sick life... So I go on break and come back and count my chips and see that I have 2,000 left at 100/200 blinds. Second hand after break I pick up AA and think to myself "Sweet, I'm going to make the final table again." WRONG! I raise to 1,000, get two callers, flop comes Q-5-3, I shove in my last 1,000 and get felted by a total moron who flopped a set of 3's. Sweet.
Wynn Tournament #2 - June 28th
So after a week of cash games, I decided to take another shot at the Wynn tournament. Kris Fox (foxfox1) and I woke up and took a cab over to the Wynn (since we were at our condo at this point) to register for the daily $300. We decided to swap 10%. The tournament starts and I get put at a table where, again, everyone is clueless on how to play poker. The fat guy to my right was decked out in WSOP gear (wsop hat, wsop sweatshirt w/ a wsop t-shirt under it, and ofcourse the sunglasses). Fat guy proceeded to take it personally when he limped in the small blind and I raised. He would limp-call my raise and donk lead any flop hoping I missed. Well I did miss most of the time... so I raised and he just folded. Moron. So at 25/50 I raise to 200 w/ QQ utg, and get 3 callers. Then the super loose/passive fish (who was limping every hand and seeing every flop) makes it 500 total from the button. He obviously has Aces. So I call to set mine, and get 2 callers behind me. Flop comes Q-8-4 rainbow. Gin. I check, and it gets check to the loose/passive reraiser who bets 1000. I call, and the two players behind me fold. Turn comes a 7. I check, he bets 1000 again. I shove and he insta calls and I stack his... Aces, duh. I proceeded to get moved to Kris Fox's table, where he was riding a semi-short stack at around 3,000 w/ 75/150 blinds. 10 minutes later, there is a raise to 450 by this loose/aggro monkey (who had a huge stack) and I flat on the button with AQs. Kris in the big blind reraises to 1700 leaving himself around 1500 behind. The loose/aggro monkey calls, and I fold. Flop comes Q-T-4 all hearts. Kris shoves, loose aggro monkey calls. Kris has KK with the K of hearts while the other guy has KJo. Turn is a black Ace, river is a brick and Kris is out.
So after the break I ride a string of cold cards, staying alive by picking up blinds with a tight image vs tight players. I hovered around 9k at 100/200 when two hands in a row I get dealt AK, I raise and get caller(s), then when I miss and c-bet dry flops I got shoved on twice. Oh well, that put me down to around 5,000 as blinds increased to 150/300. I felt comfortable at my table, since it was clear no one was really that good at all. The big stack at my table was totally cardracking every new player to come (he kept picking up JJ+ every other hand, it was pretty sick). So after stacking 2 players, two hands in a row, the cut-off raised to 900 and this big stack that I'm talking about reraises on the button to 2400. I look and find KK in the big blind. So I shoved. Cut-off folds, and big stack insta calls and shows AA. Ug not again... Flop J-3-5 rainbow, turn 6, river... KING! I run so good. Ship me that double up. So this guy is visably upset about the beat (even though he has the entire table covered by x3) and I proceed to play a very sick hand against him:
With my newly acquired 12k stack blinds moved up to 200/400 w/ 50 ante. I raise KQo in middle position to 1200. This same big stack I just sucked out on calls on the button. Flop comes As-7h-8s, I bet 2000 and he calls. Turn comes a 4c, I check and he checks behind. River comes a Kh. I check, all ready to just fold if he makes a value bet. He eyes my stack then puts me all-in with a 10,000 bet into this 7,000 pot. What!?! I ask him "How can you have a big hand? You checked the turn" ... he gives no response. So I try to get something out of him: "Sir you can't have a big hand here, you checked the turn. Your line makes no sense." Still no response. WTF "Ok I call." He slams his fist down on the felt and says "Good call" as he mucks. I usually dont celebrate when I win poker hands, but I definitly gave a mini RaiNKhaN yell "YYEAAAAAH SICK CALL" as I tabled my KQ on this hand. So with 26k I cruised to the final table.
The final table was pretty easy for the most part. I picked up QQ on the button and stacked the only good player at the table when he reshoved A3s in the big blind (and I was raising every button so it was def a set-up / cooler). Later on I see this game good player get into the Top 40 at the WSOP Main Event. The "key" hand was at 2k/4k blinds w/ 400 ante. We are 5-handed and I pick up AQ utg so I raise to 20k and commit myself vs anyone who wants to reshove on me. Well this tight/solid Danish guy reraises to 100 less than what I have. I look at him and feel sick strength. Yes I know this fold is bad... And I swear I never make this fold vs anyone but I cant describe in words the look this guy had on his face that just screamed: "I HAVE ACES, AND I'M GOING TO SILLY SMACK YOU OUT OF THIS TOURNAMENT KID." I should have just made it 12k to go so I could have some room to fold. But I'm a total donk. Worst fold ever, but I did it. Everything seemed to work after that, as I raped the fat guy dressed in WSOP gear with my Q3s vs his T3o, and he stormed off without shaking my hand. Then I raped that tight/solid Danish guy when I reshoved AJ and he called with AT. Lastly, this guy who was playing very tight through out the entire tournament just lost his head against me and had enough of my abusive blind steals, so I raised A9o on the button and he insta reshoved from the big blind... so I called and he had K8o, my A9 held and the remaining two players were like: "Wow... how did you call that? He's been so tight." And I responded: "I can't fold, dont bluff me." So ship it:
Wynn Tournament #3 - July 12th
Again, Pavel and I have a room at the Wynn and I register for the $300 tournament at 11:00am. Went back to the room to take a shower then went to the Cafe to pick up a bagel and some coffee. Got back to the Wynn poker room around 12:10, 10 minutes late. I sit down on the cut-off, my 3rd hand I pick up 77 and raise to 150. The guy behind me flat calls, and both blinds call. Flop comes Q-T-7 with two spades, both blinds check to me and I bet 600. The flat caller behind me calls and the blinds fold. Turn comes a 8. I bet 1600 and the flat caller calls again. I say to the dealer "No Jack no six please!" and the river is a 10. Sweet, full house. I bet 2400. He shoves... I'm like ugg, I call. He has QQ and decks me. Sick life. Busto 3 hands into the tournament.
Wynn Tournament #4 - July 13th
It was a Friday $500 during the Main Event of the WSOP and I got sat down at a table full of complete morons. Unforunately, I was card dead for the first 2 hours and couldnt get anything going. About 20 mins into the tournament I raised AKo on the button to 150 and got a call from the retarded small blind, it came K-5-6 and he checked I bet 300 he called. Turn came a 9, he checked I bet 750 and he called. River came a Q, he lead out for 750 and I'm like "Ug... show me your KQ" as I called. Eh, I was close enough... he had Q5o. So I lose a big chunk of my stack in that hand. I then pick up AJo in the big blind, and it gets folded around to this old guy in the small blind who limps, so I raise to 300 at 50/100 blinds, and he limp-raises to 1500. So I'm like ug oh well and fold, and he flips up 73o in the middle of the table like he made some kind of great play. I proceed to watch this crazy asian dude who played every hand go up vs this old guy aggro bluffing monkey and they play some 15k pot with 44 vs A5 on a 7-8-9 board, crazy asian dude's 44 holds and everyone thinks he made the sickest call in the entire world. The clueless retard obviously has no clue what he's doing, he just cant fold a hand. I'm thinking to myself: "Give me a hand one time please!" So at 75/150 I'm at like 2500 left, crazy asian dude limps, weak/tight small blind limps in as well and I'm in the big blind with A4s in spades. I make it 700. Crazy asian dude calls, and other guy folds. Flop comes J-3-5 all hearts. So I c-bet 1500 leaving myself 300 behind (lol). So the crazy asian dude is like "I have too many outs to fold this... ok I call" and puts the rest of it all-in with Q9 with the Q of hearts. I table A4, and the turn and river bricks out for him and I double. Then after the hand he starts talking to the guy next to him saying: "I knew that kid had nothing by the way he bet." ... OK SIR! So after the break at 100/200, crazy asian dude limps I raise on the button with QJ, and crazy asian dude calls. Flop comes Q-9-6. He checks, I bet, he calls. Turn comes a 3. He checks, I check behind. River comes a 3. He bets 1600. I snap call, and he's like good hand and holds on to his cards waiting to see my hand. So I decide I'm not going to turn over my cards unless he shows me first since I did call him. We give each other like a 15 second stare down (lol) and finally he tables K4o, and I show him the QJ to take down the pot.
Later on in a 6-way limped pot, I checked 96o in the big blind and flop came 9-6-5 with two hearts. So I lead at the pot and got two callers, one of which was this crazy asian dude. Turn came a 9 so I had this hand on lockdown, I bet 1/2 pot trying to keep the draws in. The first caller folded and the crazy asian dude made the call. At this point I put him on a draw, so river came a blank 3 (flush draw missed). And I checked to him. He pauses for a second then picks up two stacks of chips (about 4k worth) and starts counting em out infront of him. Then he asks me how much I have in my stack left, to which I respond that I have about 8k left. All the while I am totally cumming in my pants waiting for this moron to try to bluff me with his missed draw. Finally after 2 minutes of debatting he pussys out and checks behind. So I show him my full house, and he says something along the lines of "I knew you had that." ... sure you did. I proceed to lose a few chips on short stacks reshoving on my blind steal attemps and I leave myself with 11k at 150/300. I raise in early position to 900 with JJ and this aggro old guy insta makes it 3000. At this point I thought I could have just folded and played on... but the other part of me just felt this guy was loose enough to have a fairly wide range of hands here. Plus JJ was the biggest preflop hand I've seen in 4 hours. So I shoved and he snap called with QQ and I go busto. I was pretty frustrated with myself for the entire afternoon, but looking back on it now I dont think the shove was that bad given what I knew at the time.
Wynn Tournament #5 - July 19th
I came, I saw, I conquered. Plain and simple. The weird thing was, I left the room to go register and Pavel is half asleep in his bed and says "I think your going to win this one..." before he passes out. Only 30 players entered this one so I played solid ABC poker til the final table. At the final table I attempted to turn it up after the first 4 aggro donks killed themselves. There was this one young kid from denmark with all the chips, and what made it worse was this kid kept getting more chips through total gifts from other players. The young kid limped AA and flop came A-J-5, he gets check-raised, and turn comes a 8 and the guy shoves all-in and he calls and the guy has 43! GAH MAKE THESE MISTAKES VS ME PLEASE! So we are 4 handed, and they all want to chop 4-ways but the pay-out only awarded the top 3 players. So I'm like no... I dont chop. I pick up some chips on the bubble, and the guy who bubbles tilt shoves another gift to the young kid from denmark. The guy who busted in 3rd place got value towned when I had KQ and raised his big blind. He called and the board ran out K-5-3-3-9 and he called 3 barrels with K4. The kid from denmark took him out and we were heads up at 300/600 blinds. I had 25,000 and the young kid had 125,000. He offered a chip chop right here and I laughed at him. So we played it out and I found that he had totally changed his play from being real passive when we had the other players at the table to a very hyper aggressive heads up. The only problem was that he was limping every button. So the first big pot we got into was about 30 mins into our heads up match, as I chipped up to about 30k he limp reraised all-in and I called with 77. He had KT and we were coin flipping. The board bricked out for him and I won the huge double up to get me at 60k vs his 90k in chips. He then offers me a 40% chop, to which point I respond "If you take 40% then I'll chop" and he says no so we play on. 30 minutes later I deck him in a pot when he limp-reraises me on the button (like he's been doing frequently at this point) and I call with AJo. Flop comes 8-9-A and I check call a bet on the flop. Turn comes a 3 and I check and he jams and I make the call. He has A4o and I hold to take over the chip lead. We battle it out for an hour more, and I feel that he continues to get more and more frustrated. Finally he raises on the button and I call in the big blind. Flop comes T-9-3, I check raise him on the flop and he 3 bet shoves all-in. I insta call and he has K2o. Turn and river brick out and I win the tournament. The kid was very nice, and was praising how well I played heads-up etc... Some guy who was watching us play heads-up on the rail for the entire time came up to me and said it was one of the sickest comebacks he's ever seen and asked for some information about me. I was like, thanks dude but, uh, your weird, and I aint giving any info on where I live and shit. LOL.
Wynn Tournament #6 - July 20th
Only 10 players entered this $500 friday tournament so it basically played out like a deep stacked sit n go. I noticed that most of the players at the table were just complete nits that thought they could outlast each other. So I decided to change up my play at the start and raised more hands to pick up some chips. I chipped up to about 10k and knocked out one player at the first break which I thought was good. My plan back-fired a little bit on me as the antes kicked in at 100/200. The players that were short started giving me no respect and were reshoving on my raises. This forced me to play tighter than I wanted to at this point of the tournament, and be more cautious with my opening raises. I pretty much played real tight and folded my way til we were 4 handed. I was on the shortest stack at that time with 6,000 at 150/300 blinds. The other 3 players wanted to chip chop 4-ways, and I'm like: "I dont chop." They all seemed real tight and wanting to make some money so I decided to test the waters and pick up some blinds. The action for me started off like: Raise, Fold, Fold, Raise, Fold, Raise, Fold, Raise, Fold, Fold. No action from anyone... all the pots were getting walked around or folded preflop. Hmmmm, lets turn this up a bit. Raise, Raise, Fold, Raise, Raise, Fold, Raise, Fold, Raise, Raise. Still no action, I had now chipped up to almost being chip leader. Ok... lets just keep raising until someone decides to play back: Raise, Raise, Raise, Raise, Raise, Raise, Raise. Still no action... for the next hour I raise every single hand (with the exception of 4-5 hands where one of them open raised before me and I had trash) and chip up from 6,000 to 30,000 without playing a pot past the flop. The dealers were joking that I should just put out the raise before I get the cards. It seemed that the 3 players left were all look at each other and trying to wait each other out. So finally one of the guys pushes in his short stack and I have JJ and bust him. I have the majority of the chips in play going into 3 handed and I'm pretty sure I can't lose, so these two ask for a chop again. And I again tell them I dont chop. So they REALLY want a chop this time, and eventually tell me that they will both give me first place money just so they can chop 2nd and 3rd place. I'm like... uuhhh Ok well I guess I'll take that chop. Later that night I told Lyric and Daut at dinner, and Lyric suggested that I should have asked more than 1st place to let the other two players chop. ROFL.
Yea I know I've been a little slow about these Vegas updates... they aren't really up to date since I'm actually back home now. I'll be putting out some of these pictures each day (Got about 200+) for you guys to check out, with a detailed summary of what went on. If you are in dire need of seeing all the pictures immediately then just get a facebook account (www.facebook.com) and add me (Jonathan McGowan @ UCDavis) as a friend since I posted all my Vegas pictures in 4 albums (There is also 2 albums worth of PCA pictures from earlier in the year).
So I call this picture "Underaged in Vegas" ->
The first night I met MezmerizePLZ, iamalex, and milkman they came over to our condo and we played a fun game of Blind Man's Bluff. Here is milkman getting back some of the money I took from him online:
What a sick set-up... I fearlessly shoved in seeing his pocket aces... and the fish still calls. WTF.
At the end of a grueling night of Blind Man's Bluff the young-ins left at around 5am. Here is a cute picture:
And to end this blog post, I caught Derric and SakiSaki in their love affair at the Venetian:
Played the biggest pot of my life tonight at 5/10. Started the session in a 5 handed game w/ my roommate Pavel. I stacked the guy to my left and he quickly got up from the table after that. Another guy left, and it was 3 handed with Pavel, myself and this tournament pro named Anna Wroblewski:
So they moved Pavel and me and Anna played heads-up for a few minutes. She played... like a tournament player. What can I say? Folding was not in her bag of tricks. She got value-towned fairly easily. So anyways, she gets moved to a main table and a few minutes later I follow her to the same table. I proceed to see the following hands:
Hand #1:
Anna limps utg, there is a raise from a young kid to $50, active young kid on the button makes it $200. Folded back around to Anna who makes it $500. Original raiser folds, active kid calls. Flop comes 5-J-Q rainbow. She bets $700 into a $1100ish pot. Active kid calls. Turn comes a 7. She checks, active kid shoves for $3,000. She calls and has 75o... and it's good vs this active kid's AQ. Pow! Ship a big pot to Anna.
Hand #2:
Anna raises in earlier position. Gets 5 callers. Flop comes 9d-5c-6d, she bets, there is a call, then a super nit raises to $300 with 2 players left behind him. Folded around to Anna, she calls, and so does the other guy in between. Turn comes Ks, she checks, other guy checks, and super nit bets all-in for $1800 into a $1200 pot. Anna says something along the lines of "Am I good enough to fold this? No... I call" So she calls, and the other guy folds. River bricks with 7s. Anna tables AdKd, and super nit obviously has 87.
Now the hand vs me:
Anna straddles UTG, there is 5 callers, I complete in the big blind with KsQs, she defends her straddle and raises to $100. Gets 2 callers, I call. Flop comes Kc-Qd-9s. I check, Anna bets $300. Super donk calling station calls. This is where I might have made a mistake. I have $2500 behind at this point. I make it $1000 to go. Anna gives me a 10 second stare down and says "All-in". Super donk insta folds, and I barf. I count out my chips and I have $1500 behind. I then look at her and give her the "I think I should fold. If you have me beat here it is such a cooler because you're retarded." Then I called. I asked her if she had JT, she nodded. Sick life. Turn and river bricks off and she tables JT and rakes the pot. So gross...
I should have just reloaded and played on like a real solider, but the pain of losing a $6k pot to a tourney donk was just a little too much to handle so I walked it off for a bit. I'm like so bitter right now...
Yes I know I'm lazy. I will update my blog when I get back in Vegas tomorrow. Me and Pavel are staying at the Wynn for a week and I plan on playing all my poker in the Wynn poker room caz its the best poker room in Vegas ez yo.
If your there and see me, give me a holla. If you dont know what I look like, I'm the kid walking around with the smile.
So one of the nights I met a loose/aggressive live pro named Tilton Milton. We all went over to omniheart's house on the north side of the strip and played some drinking games. I hustled Milton and SakiSaki in darts for like $200. I am a sick darts player yo~
SakiSaki
Tilton Milton
Back at the Wynn there was a sick big $10/$20 game going on after Rekrul won his heads up bracelet. ElkY, Rekrul and their friend Martin all sat with $40k+ and just totally donk'd it up all night. In a span of 2 hours there were 3 $50k+ pots.
ElkY
It was this night that I picked up the new phrase "sick life". It really does sum up a lot. All I was hearing while watching the table was ElkY saying "sick life, sickest life!" or "ssibbal!"
Rekrul on the right, their friend Martin in the hat on the left
ElkY again, obv chip leader yo~!
In the sickest hand of the night, 3 players got it all-in for $15k each making some $45k pot at 10/20. The donk in the green hat in this picture sucked out with his JJ vs some old nit's AA and Rekrul's unknown junk to rake the monster pot.
The big pot is brewing
The big pot
It was pretty sick to watch. Rekrul the next day said he didnt really remember some of the hands due to being so smashed. Back at our condo actionDJ had been clocking in some killer sessions and came up some mad dough~
Yo it's me again and I'm finally back home after Vegas. Was a pretty sweet ass trip for the most part. So sweet that me and Pavel decided we'd go back next monday and stay at the Wynn for another week! LOL.
So I'm just going to post some pictures from my cam in the order I took them and try to explain the moment. So here is when I went to the Rio for the first time:
And I saw TwistedEcho playing a $1500 event:
But he ran bad and busted later that day. My friend Dustin Dirksen made it pretty far in that event though. A few days later he ended up making the final table and got heads up for the bracelet. Sadly he got it in top pair vs two pair and the guy held to cripple him out in 2nd place for $360k. Here is the picture from Nobu when we went out to celebrate w/ him and his roommates:
Next day we got to rail Daut playing the Mixed Hold'Em event. Obviously Daut is a member of the KKK:
On the other side of the room is my favorite mo-hawk PBDrunks getting pretty far in another $1500 event:
For the most part, most of my time in Vegas was spent in one place: The Wynn Poker Room. Later that night we met up with my boy Max aka acidca on PokerStars. He's obviously one of the most vicious poker players ever:
He put down the sickness at the 2-5NL for about 2 hours before he went on total monkey tilt and lost all his moneys. Here is SakiSaki and MangoD playing at the same table:
And here is me! --->
So this is only the first batch of pictures. I will be back tomorrow with another batch. Please prepare yourself for whats to come~
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... I going to miss being in San Diego so much. I had such a fun year, and even though I know Vegas is going to be a blast for the next 2 months, I really am going to miss chilling with all my friends down here. WSOP for me starts on Saturday with the $1500 NLHE donk fest. Weeeee~!! That should be interesting. I'll try to keep my blog updated on a daily basis with pictures (once I get my camera fixed since it's having some lens issues right now). 
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